Weeks of January 11 - 22, 2010

We started writing poetry at the beginning of last week and are enjoying this creative process. We have been using different formats such an acrostic poem and text innovations to reach our inner poets! We are learning about nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs and how to put them together in clever ways, The children have a great sense of rhythm and are catching on brilliantly. We will share our poems with parents next week at our Publishing Party. In math we continued our study of comparing numbers and addition and subtraction. Also, we are beginning to look at a hundreds chart and count large quantities of numbers while finding patterns as we count. We began a new science unit on matter and will be experimenting with solids, liquids and gases in the coming week.